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To: RetiredNow who wrote (19717)	5/7/1999 6:42:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 93625

Off topic! Thanks for the tech specs, Mindmeld. Here's an excerpt that confirms my suspicion that comparing the Pentium III to the Playstation II is an apples-to-oranges comparison: Vector Units VU0 and VU1 Floating Point Multiply Accumulator x 9, Floating Point Divider x 3 Wow, two vector units each able to perform up to nine multiply operations or three division operations at one time! That is a mean vector engine! This kind of functionality, however, is very specialized to applications ranging from 3D graphics processing to digital signal processing. It's rare to find this sort of specialized functionality on a general-purpose microprocessor like the Pentium III. It's just too radical a design. (However, the new SSE instructions of the Pentium III comes a step closer.) Of course, your average teenager isn't going to care as long as he can experience a new level of graphics on his home video games. Going back on topic, check out this part of the engine as well: Memory Bus Bandwidth 3.2GB per Second That means the Playstation II will connect up to two channels of RDRAM, which is twice as many as Intel's upcoming Camino chipset. Wow, this is definitely going to be a screamer! Tenchusatsu

To: RetiredNow who wrote (19717)	5/7/1999 8:25:00 PM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 93625

eetimes and samsung...maybe with practise the media will get it right. is this why we are seeing the spike? come to think of it, do the reporters have a position to protect? messages.yahoo.com just thinking. if we are to attain stuart steele's prediction of 500 in 2 years, rmbs needs to average 10 points per month. very doable imo. unclewest